Forsooth! What Sort Of Villainy Makes It's Evil Pestilence Known?

June 10, 2019 by Marc Handelman in Corporate Evil, Secrets, Must Read

Apparently, Amazon.com, Inc. (Nasdaq: AMZN) has taken up the $10 Billion Evil Gauntlet and is running with it (kids, don't do that at home...), if reports are to be believed. Read it and weep for the Interweb's lowly bookseller, turned to the darkside... Today's Must Read.

via the comic delivery system monikered Randall Munroe at XKCD! — via the comic delivery system monikered Randall Munroe at XKCD!

XKCD, UFO

June 01, 2019 by Marc Handelman in XKCD, Secrets, Satire, Sarcasm, Security Humor

BlueHat IL 2018, Gunter Ollmann's' 'Extracting Secrets from Silicon: A New Generation of Bug Hunting' →

February 06, 2018 by Marc Handelman in Hardware Security, Hardware Secrets, Secrets, Information Security, BlueHat IL, Conferences, Education

Great Idea! Let's Publish Our Private PGP Key! →

September 25, 2017 by Marc Handelman in Secrets, Security Incompetence

Via Sean Gallagher, writing at our beloved ArsTechica, comes the astonishing (well, not so astonishing give the source company...) news of Adobe Product Security Incident Response Team (PSIRT) blog publishing capers. This time, they managed to blogify their PGP private key for all the world to see. Crypto-Darwin Award canditate you say? Maybe, if there was one.

A Secret World, Detailed →

March 09, 2017 by Marc Handelman in Secrets, Vulnerabilities, Vulnerability Research, Information Security, Must Read

Today MustRead details the secretive environment many vulnerability researchers and operatives live and labor within. Enjoy.

Use of Secret Communications is an "Ancient Liberty"

July 21, 2015 by Marc Handelman in All is Information, Communications, Communications Governance, Critical Thinking, Cryptography, Encryption, Intelligence, Information Security, Secrets

Presented for your consideration - a 1997 paper entitled The Use of Encrypted, Coded and Secret Communications is an "Ancient Liberty" Protected by the United States Constitution, published by the University of Virginia Journal of Law and Technology]*.

John Fraser III the author of this superlative screed (now an attorney in Washington, DC) presents his fascinating argument on encryption, and the 'ancient right' to utilize cryptographic artifacts in the course of communications, protected, of course, by our nations' Constitution. Today's Must Read.

WWII Hackers →

June 23, 2015 by Marc Handelman in Cryptography, Secrets, History, World Wide War, Mathematics

Presentation by Anja Drephal detailing a Сою́з Сове́тских Социалисти́ческих Респу́блик (also known as the CCCP) or the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) espionage cell, operating within the national boundaries of Nippon in the 1930s and 1940s along with it's success in crypto. Whilst nearly two years old and delivered to the assembled at the Chaos Communication Congress 2013 (30C3), Drephal's presentation is assuredly worth directing your attention to (the math in the second half of the presentation is chock full of Import & Intrigue); Tuesday's Must View documentary...